clickup-cli CLAUDE.md

Repository instructions for a Rust command-line program that connects to the ClickUp project-management service through its API. They describe how to build and test it, how its code is organized, and which command groups it provides.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing clickup-cli, adding or updating ClickUp API commands, building the project, or running its tests.
Why use it?
They give a coding agent the project context it needs to work consistently, instead of making it rediscover the build commands, file layout, and command conventions.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/nicholasbester/clickup-cli/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicholasbester/clickup-cli
Per session 3,710 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 3,710 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.03710 $0.03710
Opus 5 $0.01855 $0.01855
Sonnet 5 $0.00742 $0.00742
Haiku 4.5 $0.00371 $0.00371

Measured 2d ago against content hash 380603459987, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clickup-cli CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

clickup-cli

Rust CLI for the ClickUp API, optimized for AI agent consumption. Covers all ~130 endpoints across 28 resource groups and 4 utility commands.

Build & Test

cargo build                    # Build
cargo test                     # Run all tests
cargo test --test test_cli     # CLI smoke tests only
cargo test --test test_output  # Output formatting tests only
cargo run -- --help            # Show help

Architecture

  • Ships two binaries: clickup-cli (canonical) and clkup (short alias, identical behaviour)
  • Entry: src/main.rssrc/lib.rs
  • Commands: src/commands/{resource}.rs — one file per API resource group
  • Models: src/models/{resource}.rs — serde structs for API responses
  • Core: src/client.rs (HTTP + retry), src/config.rs (TOML), src/output.rs (formatting), src/error.rs (errors)

CLI Pattern

clickup-cli <resource> <action> [ID] [flags]

Command Groups

Core (v0.1)

  • setup — configure API token and default workspace
  • auth — whoami, check
  • workspace — list, seats, plan
  • space — list, get, create, update, delete
  • folder — list, get, create, update, delete
  • list — list, get, create, update, delete, add-task, remove-task
  • task — list, search, get, create, update, delete, time-in-status, add-tag, remove-tag, add-dep, remove-dep, link, unlink, move, set-estimate, replace-estimates

Collaboration (v0.2)

  • checklist — create, update, delete, add-item, update-item, delete-item
  • comment — list, create, update, delete, replies, reply
  • tag — list, create, update, delete
  • field — list, set, unset
  • task-type — list
  • attachment — list, upload

Tracking (v0.3)

  • time — list, get, current, create, update, delete, start, stop, tags, add-tags, remove-tags, rename-tag, history
  • goal — list, get, create, update, delete, add-kr, update-kr, delete-kr
  • view — list, get, create, update, delete, tasks
  • member — list
  • user — invite, get, update, remove

Communication (v0.4)

  • chat — channel-list, channel-create, channel-get, channel-update, channel-delete, channel-followers, channel-members, dm, message-list, message-send, message-update, message-delete, reaction-list, reaction-add, reaction-remove, reply-list, reply-send, tagged-users
  • doc — list, create, get, pages, add-page, page, edit-page, embed-image
  • webhook — list, create, update, delete
  • template — list, apply-task, apply-list, apply-folder

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 147 lines · 3,710 tokens per session scan A 380603459987

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clickup-cli CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository nicholasbester/clickup-cli (45 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3,710 tokens to every session, about $0.0186 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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